Can you describe the ways in which you communicate your ideas to one another? 

We live together so it is sort of an ongoing conversation. We also communicate through sketches. We try not to be too critical about each other’s initial ideas at first. We simply try to come up with the best way of making it and see how it evolves. In that way we try to keep the intuitive feeling and some spontaneity while we create it. The not so good ideas tend to fall apart in early conversation. 

What are some of your similarities or differences? 

Oh in so many ways we are the complete opposite, but we both enjoy the same small things and find immense pleasure in having small rituals in our daily life. At the same time we always move and like change and we both love throwing things out. 
 

How do you reach a compromise in terms of creative difference? 

Through discussions and sometimes, arguments. We try not to compromise too much and still have a lot of pieces we have not executed because of our inability to come up with a solution together. 

Dark, probably darker than it comes out in our work. We both appreciate the comic in the tragic and are fascinated by the mundane and the tragic comic in the everyday in both its repetition and idiosyncrasies. Our art draws on banal slapstick humor as an exploration of comedy’s effects through repetition and displacement. It is a central element in our work because the comic briefly annuls the order of things and allows us to experience a momentary liberating blow.

Some of your installations require two participants, do you feel that those works may mimic parts of your relationship? 

Hmmm …we hope not, at least not in any conscious way. 

What are you currently working on? 

We just had a baby and haven't been able to think of much else, but the next piece we have in mind is a sort of jelly earthquake machine

Has watching your little one evolve inspired any new ideas, thoughts or feelings for potential works? 

Isak, our son is the most delightful person we have ever met, but he doesn't sleep at night so we are both sleep deprived and nothing creative has emerged from that yet. For sure, Isak will inspire us to do all kinds of amazing things. Already, he is changing our life… so no doubt it will influence our work. 

Some of your work has an inevitable, sad outcome, but also within this outcome there remains a glimmer of hope. Do you consider yourselves to be optimists or pessimists?  

Love, love, love.  

What happens in the "Jelly Earthquake Machine?" 

We are still sketching so it's a bit early to talk about it...